Pith Number

pith:LN5UJN46

pith:2016:LN5UJN46K35ERAR57CBPYFNPTU

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On Backus average for generally anisotropic layers

David R. Dalton, Len Bos, Michael A. Slawinski, Theodore Stanoev

arxiv:1601.02967 v2 · 2016-01-12 · physics.geo-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LN5UJN46K35ERAR57CBPYFNPTU}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:12:01.546932Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b7b44b79e56fa48823df882fc15af9d3fe70ef258abb7dd2d18a60162af0cbe

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.02967 · arxiv_version: 1601.02967v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.02967 · pith_short_12: LN5UJN46K35E · pith_short_16: LN5UJN46K35ERAR5 · pith_short_8: LN5UJN46

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LN5UJN46K35ERAR57CBPYFNPTU \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 5b7b44b79e56fa48823df882fc15af9d3fe70ef258abb7dd2d18a60162af0cbe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "05c914542866700774a2a6f3b838a4cc55d52d5bfc346a910d4ba7a20b35e4ba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.geo-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-12T17:29:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "24a5cfe32eb47f74dc951e7711a703dea64af0b182471cddde9e1117b5b69ccf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.02967",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}